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NEAR TO JAFFA you see here and there a gray-green Patch, which means olive trees, or a brighter green patch, which means an orange grove. But these you find are signs not of the natural richness of the country, but of the supernatural piety and industry of the German and ther Christian colonists. And the olive groves you notice only seem beau- tiful by contrast with the surrounding wilderness. Compared with one’s re- collection of an English orchard they are desolation itself, for the branches are thin and weedy-looklng, and through the foliage the stony ground shows its dismal gray. The railway 8 es rattling on till the outskirts of Jaffa and the regions of the pious Germans are left behind, and then there is nothing but the blazing blue 5115' overhead and the gray wilderness all around, till brown, bare mountains shut in the dreary landscape. 'NOL a sign of life for miles, not a house nor a plow nor a patch of cul- tivated ground; nOthing but sand and Stones and lime dust. Here and there comes a little agricultural patch, which better even than the desert pro- claims the poverty and nakedness of the land, for the Syrian peasants who cultivate it show by their rags and their wretchedness how poor is the re- ward of their patient toil. ? Then the desolate plain is left behind, and the railway begins to climb among the still more desolate mountains of Judea. out with thrilled expectation for the milk and the honey, the kine placidly grazing in the womb pastures the bees flitting among the flowers and all the Other signs of the abundant richness of the Land of Promise. You look from the windows of the narrw- gauge, crawling, rattling Jerusalem railway train, and you see a land flow- ing with sand and rocks. Go along the dreary coast; there, where the crusaders fixed their strongholds, you do n0t look for the beauty of a fertile land. But when you leave the white pile mound of the Jaffa houses behind and strike inland toward Jerusalem you begin to look The orthodox endeavors to.comfort his belief by attributing all thls appal- ling barrenness to the Turk. ' “These valleys,” he says, “once Stood so thick with corn that. they laughed and sang. The hills that are! now great bare rozks were once densely wooded. But the paralyzing Turk laid his hand on the land, laid impossible burdens on industry, put impossible taxes on olive trees. and see the re- sult. The land went out of cultiva- tion, the forests were destroyed, the olive trees were out down for firewood, with the natural and inevitable result that the rainfall dwindled and dwind- led till it almost disappeared, so that. the fruitful soil bemme sterile. or was buried under crumbling rocks. It has been going on thus for centuries. It is the paralyzing hand of the Mos- em. 50 Sign of life for Weary llllc Afler Incâ€"A Journey rm Is In Elan! Ways :1 Great Disappointment. A land flowing with milk and honey, that ought to be pleasant to the eye, even though a trifle sticky. Of course, between Haifa and Jaffa, where the road follows the coast line, you natur- you are not surprised to find the bar- ren, monotony, of the sand diversified by heaps of. stones, says the London Mail- For that noble emotionalism which Peter the Hermit excited, heaps of broken stones lying in the sand are all that remain as memorials of the pitiful tragedy of their chivalrous en- terprises. The Saracen planted his flag over their im-pzregnable strong- holds and contem'pt-uously pulled them stone from stone. The barren sand re- | asserted its dominion and swept over; everything, and though it is not so1 many of hundreds of years ago, a heap: of stones that might mark a nameless; grave is all that remains of the very ruins of many a building that was? meant to be eternal. That. may be wholly or partly true, but it requires a very strong faith to believe it. It is quite impossible, un- less you want very badly 1.0 believe Otherwise to reject the uncompromis- :ng story of ll dreary, depressing monotony of ugliness. At last, as the train goes picking Its way among bowlders, climbing all the time, you turn a corner and come by the side of an other narrow, stony valley. which only differs from a hun- dred Others~in the respect that dotted about it are little detached houses of European fashion standing amid pat- rites of cultivation. You have come 10 another German colony, the one on the outskirts of Jerusalem. There is a. road which has been made by the sim'..le plan of clearing a narrow track of some of "the loose stones and piling them in a ridge on either side. There are even fields-little fields which are marked by high walls at piled stones, removed from the surface. But the very large stones. gramta rocks too or to think that anything ever grew; here from the beginning of geographi-g cal time. Nor has the landscape any ' of impressiveness, the grandeur of might} masses or infinite (iistances.; Except for the beauty of the clear light i and the blue sky, there is nmhing but; LAND OF SAND AND HOOKS. LITTLE ELSE TO BE SEEN ON THE ROAD TO JERUSALEM. THOSE BARE ROCKS, ' ANCIENT SWEET PEAS. ; At arm-en: horticultural exhibition -thez~e were shown some sweet peas @gvown from seeds found in the wrap- pers of a mummy 2,000 years old. The gblossom was pink and white. SERMONS FOR THE DEAF. In a Ballarat. Australia, church spe- cial accommodation is provided for deaf worshipers, a. diaphragm having been rigged up in the vicinity of the pul- 'pit, from which the sound of the cler- gyman‘s voice is carried in tubes to the ears of such of his flock as may be afflicted with a hardness of hear- en little street, in which the chief business of Jerusalem is carried on. And in the street are donkeys, boys, priestsâ€"mostly Greek and Armenian, slimy-looking roguesâ€"Turkish sol- diers, beggars, natives in bright cos- tumes, shOpkeepers’ touts, importu- mate. with their “You come to my ship, sare;” floating, choking dust and a blinding sunshineâ€"and that is Jerusa- lem, as far as you. have got. ADULTERATED COFFEE. Painted coffee beans are among the latest curiosities of the adulterated food market. Inferior beans are, col- ored with burnt umber and made to look like the finest Mocha. They are described as “shiney brown outside, yello“ inside, and tasteless ” This is the Jaffa gate. But, for- tunately, the rich man no longer need pass through this needle’ 3 eye, for by the side of the gate section of the wall which stretched from the gate house to the tower, has been removed and a decent roadway made. In here you drive, and find yourself in a fairlyop- Fewer deaths are caused by mining accidents now than in 1855, although at the present. time there are two and a half times as many people employ- ed under-ground. TELEPHONES IN STOCKHOLMI. Stockholm has more telephonw than any other European city. It is statâ€" ed that the central Station has about 100.000 calls a day. or about one for every three persons in the city. RICKETY BROKEN CARRIAGE, whose pitiful decrepitude you feel al- most ashamed to impose upon, and look around for the Jerusalem of your dreams. You find yourself in a deso- lation of limestone dust. The city stands on a hill opposite to that upon which the railway ends, and the road from the station winds down a steep road into the valley between, and then drags up the opposite slope. The only impression you have is dust. There is nOthing to be seen or felt or perceiv- ed but dust. Clouds of dust arise friom beneath the rickety, rumbling carriage. The thin, stunted trees, holding on to the ledge of rock by the roadside, are white with dust. The ragged, frowsy beggars who line the road sit in dust and are covered with dust. And through the dust you see dimly on the right a bare rocky hill, with, at the tap, a high battlemented wall. terminating at a point of the mountain a heavy, somber stone fort- ressâ€"the Tower of David. At the tap of the hill there is a gate in the wall, an arched tunnel, with a right-angled bend in. it like‘a gas pipe joint. Do you think you earn enough to sug-porg‘ two? asked her father. Two? answered the young man quiz- zically. tl’ve only asked for one of your famiiy. Who else are you going to ring in on me? He had his arm about her shoulders when the young brother dashed into the room, playing street car. Isn’t her new gowngtunning? Yes; 1191' husband must have been stunned when he got the bill. ‘v-vvâ€"v v\--o Change 316 tile Selt line, whooped the innocent youngster as he dashed out again. LU}, Pbflurv “v s.._. -_ The train rumbles on into a dirty, mean little station, where a fat Turk- ish station master in uniform and a crowd of shouting, wrangling Arab porters in rags and dirt occupy the platform, you descend and climb into a “135% uv vvv-, --___ you feel your blood throbbing, you do not quite know why. That is your first View of Jerusalem. The other bare hill, with the White building on the top, is the Mount of Olives. You cannoc help being disappointed. The distant view reveals no shining points of gold, no clothing verdure, no graceful, luxuriant palms. The im- pression of peace and mm, of balm for troubled feelings, of. holy calm of which you have in some absurd way been expecting to come with the first glimpse of the holy city, are strangely absent. At a distance Jerusalem looks simply commonplace. It will be bet- ter, perhaps at close view. 1.,-L heavy for removal, remain standing amid Stones. And the small stones remain, too, for the sunple reason that they and the powdered dust among which they lie are the fruitful soilâ€"all that there is of. it. Then anozher sweep around a gray hillside, and a brown mass on the tap of a brown hill, dominated by a heavy- looking tower, comes, into view, and “LL:-â€"- “5‘“ AA FATAL MINING ACCIDENTS. A MISUNDERSTANDING. COULDN‘T AFFORD 11'. RIG HTLY CALLED. TH BY CHANG E1) at this kind installed in the steel plants of a sort that facilitates the handling of the bulky material as it never could have been handled before. On the platform above the man at the lever watches the work with the attention a locomotive driver bestows upon his cha:ge(. Up and down the length of the bu'Jding the great elec- triq crane maves almost noiselessly, while the tongs pick up heavy ioads here and there. as the man in charge directs. ts authority for the statement that without them the work would require hundreds, of more men where now the machinery does the work. \Vhether the working men, or laborers, rather, Look upon the hoist in the same light as do the owners of the steel plants is another question. At any rate, the electric hoists are an important factor in the preliminaries attending the making of steel. TRAVELING CRANES. are now employed in all works requir- ing appliances for lifting heavy mat- ter. But the most recent machinery only among the mosr recent additions to the steel plant, but their mission is so distinctly unique that an inspection of the: magnets at work belongs to the sights which remain in the machin- ery! after a. tc-ur ot the plant has been made. For instance at first. the electro- magnets were supposed to lift only one plate at a time. Then some genius discovered that with a current strong enoughl more than one plate could be hoisted. That; was well enough in its way, but how to load one plate on this car and another plate on that car! The genius once more assert- ed himself. “Leave the . current on until the plates. that are stuck together are im- mediateiy over the car. Then turn off just; enough current to make that plate drop,” said our inventive genius, The experiment worked to a charm. and. now the workmen never think of picking up the solitary piate, but have several plates “in a bunch." so to speak. ' * The electromagnetic hoists and hot beds 'Of the steel plant are for the pur- pose of fitting the heavy plates from their resting places t3 the railroad cars awaiting the transportation ot the finished produCL. -However, many things not down on the programme have been added by the workmen who have eXpez'émemed with the magnets to the purpose of saving time and labar. An enormous pressure of electricity is required to produced the magnet current. But when it is recollected with what tenacity the rmall magnets which can be carried in the pockets, are able to hold on. the tremendous grip of these powerful magnets comes home to the visitor who sees them in operation for the first time. INGOTS CAST 0N CARS. Returning to one of the intermedi- ate processes before the plate or the rail is ready for shipment. the depart- ment where the ingots of steel are cast has of late received new improve.- ments which have done away with much’ labor that stood in the way of quick work. {Formerly the molten steel was cast in ingots that were plac- ed in pits. That was a laborious kind of task. Now, however, the ingots are met directly on cars running on tracks to the very mouth of the furnace. The steel is poured into the casts, away puffs the engine, and in the twinkling of an eye another car is there with its maids ready for filling. Granted that the plate or the rail is finishedya certain amount of slack But interesting as are the hoist ma- chinery, the cranes and the labs-ratory work, the eiectric magnets are not These hoists in connection with steel making are of recent invention. The manager of one of the greatest plants On the arrival at the docks of one at the immense curved decked steam- era that ply the lakes all of the 16 batches are open, and the work of loading the waiting railroad cars is at once begun. But while part of the ore is transported from the dock by rail the largest quantity is elevated by the 16 hoists, and, along specially con- structed cables, brought to its destina- tion in buckets of immense calibre, And the work of regulating the empty- ing 0f the steamer has been brought d0,wn- to such perfection that a piece of ore is never dropped from a bucket, nor does the slightest hitch occur in the matter of transportation from the ship to the ore yards. Arabian Nightsâ€"Recent [m enllons That Have Been Made In the [landing of ore and Loading the Finished Article on the Cars. . Electricity has played an Import- ant part in the growth and develop- ment; of steel. Even in the, matter of transportation new means have faci- liated the bringing of the raw product to the mill, to be turned into the fini- shed art'Lcle. Frcm‘ the far off mines in the Northwest immense whaleback steamers now convey the ore across the Great Lakes. Capable of hold- ing thousands of tons of ore, they en- abie the steel plants to obtain fresh supplies in bulk. The marvels of electricity begin already here to show themselves. HAN MAIDEN OF STEEL. SCIENCE HAS WROUGHT MARVELS. IN ITS MANUFACTURE. :52“ Mi nl Than Any Found In the insâ€"Recent [m unions That Wade In the [landing ofOrc »« the Finished Amide on Exciting llunt on the. “'cslcrn Plains and Its Terrible EnclIngâ€"lbogs and Men and Hen and Dogs Engage In Mona! Combat. Sadness comes when we think of lhow long ago things happened. Let us not bother ourselves about time, though we cannot cease to remember that it took youth to sit up all night in the club, and ride all next day, or sleep twenty-four hours on astretch, as the situation demanded. The scene, ias I recall it, demanded exactlythat. ‘ The ambulances of Fort Adobe brought fa party of ranking military men, sun- idry persons of substance, lesser mor- tals of much enthusiasm, and Colonel W'illiam Codyâ€"the Great Unknownâ€" .uD the long thirty miles of dusty plains from the railroad. The yellow l i , . . . . gcountry in the autumn is dry riding l .oâ€".... and hard work. The officers stationed at the post took a brotherly interest [in the new comers because they were lalso sportsmen. You could not drive Kan iron wedge between the plains type 'of officer and a sportsman without killing both. There were dinners of ‘custom and such a gathering at the .club as was unusual, where the hunt- ling‘ plans were keenly discussedâ€"so keenly, in fact, that it was nearer morning than midnight when it was considered desirable to go to bed. There were dogs which the sports- .men had brought alongâ€"fierce wolf- 1h°und8 from Russiaâ€"and Buffalo Bill The domestic servant? of the line came dOW'i back of the stables. The sentries on cost even walked sidewise. that they might miss no details. Ado- â€"â€"-â€"â€"‘vv mu“ Vul- Lu\l y‘uluwl, an“ on the bed of the wagon was a box made of poles and slats. Inside of this was a big gray wolf, which the man had caught in a trap withouL injur- ing it in the least. He hoped to be able to sell it at; the post, but he ma- lized his hope and his price right there. “ Now, boys, we'll have a wolf- hunt; but let us go back 10 the post, where the ladies and the men can see it.” We could not agnee whether it was the colonel‘s gallantry or his circus habits which prompted this move, but it was the thing' which bmu‘ght a blighting sorrow to Fort Adobe. “'0 turned back, bundling Mr. \Volf down the road. He sat behind the slats. gaz- ing far awav; across his native hills, silent and dignified as an Indian war- rior in captivity. The ladies were notified, and came out in traps. The Soldiers joined us on horseback and on foot. some; hun- dred of them, each with his pet fice, own-dog, at his heels. had two malignant pups in which he took a fine interest. The officers at Adobe were possessed of a pack of rough Scotch hounds, besides which, if every individual soldier at the post did not have his individual doggie, I must have made a miscount. It was arranged that we consolidate the col- lection and run a wolf on the mor- row. ‘E'hat 8001": 'xvag in nrncnanr rnvoinn Everything was ready but the wolf. It was easy to find wolves in that country, however. \Ve had 610W dogs to trail them with. But our wolf came to ms in the way money comes to a modern politician. BILL, THE CHIEF OF SPORTS, as we called him, was riding ahead, when we saw him stop a wagon. It was driven by an old “prairieâ€"dog," (noggiesqrigt Ipal} of the plains), and COLONEL WILLIAM CODY’S EX- PERIENCE WITH THE WOLF. ’What sport was in prospect, reveille was the usual hour, regardless of bed- time. Morning found us all mounted, and the throng of horses started up the road. The dogs were kept togeth- er; the morning was of the golden. frosty Adobe type, and the horses could feel the run which was coming to them. ‘ Then came the hour when the right kind! of process proved that ore slack was the very best kind of ballast for railroad tracks. The former waste was quickly turned into a useful arti- cle. and among the wares for sale by the great steel concerns slack‘ for bal- last. is now considered one of the im- portant items. As quickly as the Stack‘ comes from the furnace it is turned into use and the railroads are always. ready for it. THE TRGUBLE BROTHERS As pertaining to this cement it is virtually owing to the chemical comâ€" positionI which the ore has undergone that its usefulness has found exem- plification. Ground into the fineness of sand, there is no indication, as it pas- ses through the hand, that iron ore has been the first substance which gage it so immaculate an aspect. _ But there is quite a difference be- tween: this kind and that where tons ups/n tons of the muss look to the un- mttlated eye as great mr‘untains of rocks broken up and heaped together in cyclonic compactness. has come from the process of turning the crude ore into the finished mate- rial. In former days the steel plants had. to buy or lease acres upon' acres of empty lots on which to place the slack. It was one of the annoying features. with which they had to con- tend. Mountain high the slack would accumulate from year to year. and no way. seemed to show itself for making use of it. Cement. is likewise something which comes from slack of the furnace, but in' this instance the process of manu- facturing begins before the slack reaches the yard. Certain ingredi- ents must be added before the process of transformation is complete. Life must you, said 1'. A dinner to 1 every day! repl be 4 years old n W‘v-v- uv-V- Things gradually quieted, andd men started slowly hack T0 thepf nursing their wounds. Most oft horses had run away during thee ’gag'eme'nt. F: was clear to be so! that plaster and liniment wouldfl short at Adobe that day. . ’ Colonel Cody sat on. his hot! thinking of the destruction he 11! wrought. The commanding officer gath?“ THE ACRE OF DOGS. By this time the men were so frenzic that they could not tell ashoulde strap from a bale of hay. One mig} The coming winner, Jut goose bone, will be cold z sun will shine, however. days, but when it is sum: be confidently looked for. tainly form by (‘hristmr Worst of the season will March 31, 1900. Paste 112 when» you can read and ter. be unreasonable mum to such a cruel fate. Naturally this couid nor last fol: ever, and gradualiy the men we: torn apart and the. dogs unhoo}; their fangs from their adversary? During the war Ilooked towardt fort, hoping for some relief, buttl half-mile was dotted here and the! with individuals thumping and poun! ing each other, while their dogs tong! at their heels. \Vhere, where had; seen this before, thought; carneiq yes,â€" in Caesar's Commentarles. Th1 did things just this way in 1118 U Bare legs and short swords onlyw needed here. ‘1 uv JV“ Auk/null “V v..â€"â€"..__- " I reckon he thinks we have "13‘ day. Nexttlfl trouble enough for to- . _ we 80 hunting, colonel, .kl' had better leave your warriors; home," was Bill‘s last commenti he turned his horse‘s mil to???“ “bitâ€"Frederic Remington, an Hat. er’s Monthly. At a ravine we were looked behind, and th: half-mile was dotted he with dog-fights of va. ‘tions. Some places there. as ten in a bunch. and a couples. The infantry : running out to separate The commanding officer gathel‘l himself and sang out: ”Say. Bill, the? is your doggoned ol‘ wolf 51““ there on the hill looking at you Wh‘ do you reckon he thinks?" LAHA mill v the r h and borne along ujth the charge, 3:: thing “as gomcr smoothl \K‘ as well have attempted to stop IE ba_t_tle of Gen ysbur'g. AS HE KNEHV HEP. 3 Mrs. Buggâ€"Ii you keep aroacnnnhle I $113” just SPEC ULATI KG 't he SF mpati v. 1‘ I be. VP. {'5' :3 :15“?! replies Dot - t0 the rest 0f othy Old next 3111 rc’h' the. <.-hief funcmm v- .sked the teach“. . 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Also, place? woand threeâ€"quarters pounds of the est butter and three pounds of pub arized sugar in a large mixing bowl. nd stand upon the oven stock to geL allow. In the meantime break forzy {gs into a bowl, making sure Lhut lam perfectly fresh. The tins for ecakes should then .be prepared by mug fourteen round sixâ€"inch cake ”P3 with paper and standing them m the tins. All having been thus it ready, proceed to prepare the bui- rand sugar in the usual way, adding ‘8 9888, a few at :1 Lime, and avoid mllxng the mixture by adding Ihe mitoo quickly. The cake batter Wiley is then completed by add- 18 the-flours; a. little milk may be 1M If necessary. In baking the. the“; one pound two ounces can be It mto each pl‘kepared and papered 511. After flattening out slightly “1‘ a palette knife. dredge sugar 7°!" 1‘1me two pieces of Citron upon me tap 0f each cake. The oven should “If moderate heat. Dark Cakeâ€"Cream one half cup of was. rhebest manner of putting on gloves to open and turn back the gloves to ethumb, an.d p0“ der lightly; put the gel-sin that places, no: the thumb, “carefully work them on with the [st finger and thumb of the uther manntil they are quite down; neVer ass between the fingers; pass Lhe gglove into proper place by means the lightest pressure, always uhuw- gthe kid to slide between the fin- rs;infinishing, care should be mun fastening the first button. V“ 'VVVV W5fiyu¢v “”h- m “11 Very month. Last of an. {at the Whites of the two eggs till ‘3 and flakY; then mix all together M add one cup currants which have ben Warmed and dusted with flour. Dark Cakeâ€"Cream one half cup of W. waxy butter, add to a: gradu- I’ one 311D of finest granulated su- I.beati.ng all the time, then add the “3 0f two eggs well beaten, then ”Wet teaspoonful of mace, one- 1fteasil’omlf‘ul each of cinnamon and we’ One-half teaspoonful of orange, Wet Water. Mix well, then add mafia cup molasses, beating .ll agam. To two and! one-quarter P8 of gifted Pastry flour add one, u. one-half scant teaspoonfuls of bug Wder; add this with one-half 51°35’94"! t0 the above minure an ' ,1, into its place with care, and .onwith the fingers; {urn back fine and slide it over the hand and ”never pinching thg kid, and work DOMESTIC RECIPES. mks. on Griddle Cakes -â€" First, 6 t{uni-“0113.111: of‘ all, is a soap- gnddle- It should never be It should b h . iw . e. at enough to ha??? the batter touches it. Pour Dad paifm a Pitcher to prevent Ber B"'8 Buckwheat Cakesâ€"Take “.3” °fL"Iukewarm" water, or a hotter» but not too hot, put a .0: salt; and two tablespoonfuls ““011 mOIasses in this, then stir buckaeat flour until it is just enough 33 run off the spoon. Have ready (iii of compressed1 water. Adda set to rise i fire, if it is rrq‘ cold. let it st morning add What can be penknife: 5: ready to fry. 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